Word: inwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief, to rule out this course because of its martial connotation or because it could become too cheap a part of modern education is unfair. The cogent argument against it is that which suggests this as another movement inward professionalizing the college. Yet it need not be quite that if it be a real part of the movement toward making military training less the professional study of the few and more an accessory knowledge of the many. Military life will continue to assume a professional status in the eyes of those who wish so to make it. But the tendency...
...where the waters rise and the winds are borne on the waters of the afterlife. Through hia priests he brings a new manhood and womanhood, to be entered by night at hushed circles where a drum is beaten and the men sit naked to the waist chanting inward liturgies...
...wills, guarding them from and for their women. Through labyrinths of official tape, thickets of superior and subordinate officers' personalities, swamps of physical obstacles, weather, food, transportation, equipment, his mind and nerves are shown maintaining their stability, and threading at the same time the dark jungles of his own inward life. Over all is the shadow of the major obscenity in the trenches. ... A casualty with half a face, air-bombed, bubbles red in his lap. . . . The half-face obsesses him. . . . "But the thing is to be able to stick to the integrity of your character," he says...
...lives of two women with whom the wife has become closely associated, a saintly semimythical Princess and a courageous widow through whom the husband discovers how irrevocably he belongs to his wife. It is a sombre tale, told with great power and refinement and extraordinary grasp of the inward structure of the characters...
...game is opened by the act of "facing" in which the two centres, each with his left shoulder towards his opponents' goal, hold their sticks wood downwards on the ground, the ball being placed between them. When the signal is given the centres draw their crosses or sticks sharply inward in order to gain possession of the ball. The ball may be kicked or struck with the crosse, as in hockey, but the goal keeper alone may handle it, and then only to block and not to throw...